Re: Green badges? We ain't got no stinkin' badges.....

[audidudi@mindspring.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>     Interesting.  I've put about that much into my '87 5KTQ, so when does it
>turn into an UrQ?

Shortly after you transplant that '90 200 motor into a new chassis ...
actually, what I was suggesting is that everyone who buys an Ur-Q either
spends $3k on it within the first year or so tries to unload it upon
somebody else.  I don't know what it is about these cars but no matter what
you pay for it or who you buy it from, they all seem to need work ... for a
while, I was looking at buying an inexpensive '83 to use as a daily-driver
and every one that I checked out 1) had a fair bunch of money already spent
on it and 2) needed even more spent on it in order to bring it up to snuff.
I eventually decided that one project at a time was enough, thank you.

>     Just bought a 4KQ last week and drove it home, about 1100 miles.
>Included a side-trip through the twisties in West Virginia.  Great handling
>car.  I now understand the fascination with the Ur-Qs.  If they corner better
>and accelerate faster than the 4Ks, they've GOT to be enjoyable.  Now if I
>could just find that magic dust......

The 4kq definitely has a charm of its own but I'm not sure anyone is going
to confuse it with an Ur-Q ... it's true the Ur-Q is a heavier car by a few
hundred pounds but it really doesn't feel that way on the road or even the
track, for reasons I don't entirely understand.  Perhaps the best of all
worlds is a turbo conversion on a 4kq ... has anyone with one of these
directly compared it -- back-to-back -- against the real thing?
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